System of heating



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n. H. BURRBLL.. A SYSTEM 0F HEATING.

No. 480,903. Patented Aug. 16, 1892.

t M3. l Ky@ INVENTDB Ihvrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID 1-I. BURRELL, or LITTLE FALLS, NEwYoRK.

fsYsTElvs oF HEATING."

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent'No. 480,903, dated August 16, 1892.

. Applicant fuga nach 5,1388. sentire. 266,271. (No'moiei.)

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Be it known that'I, DAVID `H.:ISURRELM of Little Falls, in the county of; Herkimer, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Systems of Heating, of which the.following,1taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full,Y

In order to enable others skilled in the art` to which my invention pertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and use, referring to the accompanying drawings,'in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section, and Fig. 2 a front view, of an arrangement of my apparatus as built into a new house. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of another arrangement of the same intended to more fully illustrate the various effects that may be produced when the heating apparatus enters-into and becomes a portion of the design and decoration of a house without in any degree injuring its usefulness for the real object of its existence.

The object I have in View is to so control the temperature of a room or house as to keep it as nearly as possible of an even temperature during the whole year independent of the extreme changes that may occur in the outside atmosphere, and to do this I use an apparatus which is in no sense portable, but

which when applied becomes apermanent xture and a part of the house in which it is placed. I also aim in heating the house or building to utilize the large amount of heat which is ordinarily wasted by being passed olf up the flue with the smoke and products of combustion, and I effect this by passing said products of combustion through the rooms to be heated in a series of tubes, which I prefer to construct of thicker material than sheet metal in order that they may act as reservoirs in which the heat is stored and from which it is given off with greater evenness than would be the case with pipes made of sheet metal.

In carrying out my invention in practical application to .buildings the form and arrangement may and will be varied greatly, partly to accommodate the varying conditions of differentbuildings and partly to more perfectly harmonize with the. design, arrangement, and decoration of the house, as is particularly desirable in an apparatus which becomes a permanent part of the building, but which'in no waydeparts from the principle of my invention.

In the accompanying drawings I have represented a section of a portion of a building, in whichv a represents ithemain or first floor, and a a2 the second and third floors, respectively.

In the lower story or basement I have shown a heater or furnace Z9, which may be of any desired kind, and has its smoke-pipe connected to thevue, as usual.

In Figs. l and 2 I have shown an arrangement of my invention in which the apparatus is arranged in a new house Without any flue or chimney and arranged to heat the tier of rooms one above the other, as shown. In this case each room is provided with a manifold in the hearth, as at g, and each is provided with a iange to support a border of ornamental tiles.

rlhe manifolds are connected by a series of vertical tubes g', which pass up through the rooms, and it will be noted that each series is set off or not in line with the other and that each manifold is provided with a series of removable caps g2,which are removed at pleasure for clearing the tubes, besides acting as additional heating-surface, and may be made quite ornamental.

In Figs. 3 and 4 I have shown still another arrangement applied to new houses, in which I have shown a different form ot heater in the basement and double flue connected therewith and built up only to the first iioor, where the manifold and pipe connections are made, as before explained. These various arrangements serve well to show the character of my improvement and the adaptability to an ornamental interweaving with the house, which does not interfere with its practical usefulness.

The invention will therefore be understood as the permanent application through the IOO house of a series of shallow pans or manifolds in which the smoke and heat are permitted to expand and spread and the series of tubes connecting the manifolds passing 5 through the rooms and serving to heat the same by the storage and radiation of the heat that would otherwise be wasted.

In all the manifolds and connections I prefer to use metal of some thickness-say onero eighth inch and upward-because I find by practice that the mass of metal contained therein acts to store the heat and give it off again slowly and with great evenness, saving in fuel and keeping the temperature more t5 nearly at one point; but I do not desire to whollyconiine myself to thick and heavypipes, as the thickness will often be varied with the material used, iron, copper, brass, and other material being used, according to the desired 2o costaud variance of decorative effect, and the thickness of the pipes will be varied according to the cost and conductivity of the metal used.

It will be noted that Ido not confine my in- 25 vention simply to heating; but in summer when a cooler atmosphere is desired by disconnecting myheater or providing a separate opening into the tine I procure through the system a draft of the cool damp air of the 3o basement, which tends to reduce the temperature of the system below that of the surrounding air, and has thus a cooling tendency and effect without introducing anyfoul or impure air into the rooms.

I make no claim herein to any system of 35 heating-pipes which are not fixtures in the building and a permanent part thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of abuilding having rooms one above the other, a heater, a pipe for conducting the products of combustion from said heater, a heating-chamber connected to said pipe and supported between said rooms and 45 above the ceiling of the lower room, an out-- let-pipe leading from saidchamber and out of line with said former pipe, and a radiatingcap removably secured to said chamber above and in line with said former pipe, substan- 5o tially as and for the purpose specified.

1n testimony whereof I havehcreunto signed my name, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Little Falls, in the county of Herkimer, in the State of New York, this 30th day 55 of January, 1888.

- DAVID H. BURRELL. Witnesses:

WM. P. MALONEY, GEO. W. SEARLES. 

